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Fascinating stuff. In the last one, you mention that the gcode was all hand written. Yes, all handwritten. Here is another one that was put out with an annotated file (attached below) that was intended to be a lesson for those looking to learn how to do this. The video displays each line number as ...

Here are a couple videos that show some cuts you could make if you put a little extra "ooomph" into your rotary axis:

The supplied postP for Vectric does support arcs as Adrian mentions, but only in the G17 plane. Vectric does not support arcs in the G18 or G19 planes. That said, you may want to look at your smoothing settings if you are not happy with machine motion while cutting concave or convex shapes.

I will add a question to the Austin User Group forum to see if Vectric can add an option to do the math in the program and rewind only the remaining portion of a rotation. If done in Vectric, it would be independent of machine/controller. It would really enhance the process on multiple toolpaths. A...

Experimenting with L28.1 on my WinCNC 3.1.00 setup did not behave as documented. I zeroed my A axis I executed G1 A527 I executed L28.1 and the A axis reset to a number where at least the first digit was cut off and the rest of the display Screenshot 2024-03-19 195117.jpg I tried a G0 A0 but killed...

First off..... I made a mistake. The WinCNC Command is "L28.1", not G28.1 as I wrote above. Its been 4-5 years since I worked with the WinCNC commands, sorry guys. I have been blessed to be allowed to participate in a number of CNC Control MFGRs beta testing programs over the years and I am often us...

...... It makes about 15K revolutions for the spiral and then, after the tool change, the spindle moves into position for the next cut, pauses and takes a full 10 to 12 minutes to rewind. Is there any way to tell the machine to skip the rewind and continue with the next correctly indexed toolpath? ...

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These may help, but you will have to convert to SB's kiddie code if the Gcode doesn't run:

One thing that you will find difficult to emulate is the piercing stage at the beginning of a cut. The time spent "dwelling" in one place varies depending on material and thickness. You should easily be able to control your initial actions by modifying the "INITIAL_PLUNGE" section of an appropriate...

I've often imported a semicircle from Corel Draw and when I save the tool path it ends up being erose. When I looked at the code it's obviously a series of short straight lines and hundreds or more lines of code. I assumed that if I drew the same semicircle in V carve it would be smooth and use the...

Make your model (or machining envelope) the width of the bit larger than the circumference.

If I were building another machine I might look at Centroid controllers which I believe would mean using their proprietary control software but I am not 100% sure if that is correct or not. Of course you have to use their control software. Just like all of the above mentioned controllers, you must ...

I would look into Centroid, they should have you covered from a to Z.

https://www.centroidcnc.com/

The answers to your questions will lie in what features your controller has regarding ATC tool handling. Most of the hobby grade controllers will only allow a fixed number of tools, for example 10. Any tool you use in "slot 1", etc. will have to be numbered 1 in the Vectric database. Some systems wi...

This burning issue can be reduced or even eliminated by using a more advanced controller that has velocity compensating PWM for a laser. Higher feature controllers like the Centroid Acorn and others have the ability to reduce the laser's power during accel, decel and start/stop.